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Hier der vollständige Change Log:

11 Jun 2015, PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1

- Core:
. Fixed bug #69767 (Default parameter value with wrong type segfaults).
(cmb, Laruence)
. Fixed bug #69756 (Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency
? with ===). (Dmitry, Laruence)
. Fixed bug #69758 (Item added to array not being removed by array_pop/shift
). (Laruence)
. Fixed bug #68475 (Add support for $callable() sytnax with 'Class::method').
(Julien, Aaron Piotrowski)
. Fixed bug #69485 (Double free on zend_list_dtor). (Laruence)
. Fixed bug #69427 (Segfault on magic method __call of private method in
superclass). (Laruence)
. Improved __call() and __callStatic() magic method handling. Now they are
called in a stackless way using ZEND_CALL_TRAMPOLINE opcode, without
additional stack frame. (Laruence, Dmitry)
. Optimized strings concatenation. (Dmitry, Laruence)
. Fixed weird operators behavior. Division by zero now emits warning and
returns +/-INF, modulo by zero and intdid() throws an exception, shifts
by negative offset throw exceptions. Compile-time evaluation of division
by zero is disabled. (Dmitry, Andrea, Nikita)
. Fixed bug #69371 (Hash table collision leads to inaccessible array keys).
(Laruence)
. Fixed bug #68933 (Invalid read of size 8 in zend_std_read_property).
(Laruence, arjen at react dot com)
. Fixed bug #68252 (segfault in Zend/zend_hash.c in function
_zend_hash_del_el). (Laruence)
. Fixed bug #65598 (Closure executed via static autoload incorrectly marked as
static). (Nikita)
. Fixed bug #66811 (Cannot access static::class in lambda, writen outside of a
class). (Nikita)
. Fixed bug #69568 (call a private function in closure failed). (Nikita)
. Added PHP_INT_MIN constant. (Andrea)
. Added Closure::call() method. (Andrea)
. Fixed bug #67959 (Segfault when calling phpversion('spl')). (Florian)
. Implemented the RFC `Catchable "Call to a member function bar() on a
non-object"`. (Timm)
. Added options parameter for unserialize allowing to specify acceptable
classes (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize). (Stas)
. Fixed bug #63734 (Garbage collector can free zvals that are still
referenced). (Dmitry)
. Removed ZEND_ACC_FINAL_CLASS, promoting ZEND_ACC_FINAL as final class
modifier. (Guilherme Blanco)
. is_long() & is_integer() is now an alias of is_int(). (Kalle)
. Implemented FR #55467 (phpinfo: PHP Variables with $ and single quotes). (Kalle)
. Added ?? operator. (Andrea)
. Added operator. (Andrea)
. Added \u{xxxxx} Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax. (Andrea)
. Fixed oversight where define() did not support arrays yet const syntax did.
(Andrea, Dmitry)
. Use "integer" and "float" instead of "long" and "double" in ZPP, type hint
and conversion error messages. (Andrea)
. Implemented FR #55428 (E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR when output buffering in output
buffering handler). (Kalle)
. Removed scoped calls of non-static methods from an incompatible $this
context. (Nikita)
. Removed support for #-style comments in ini files. (Nikita)
. Removed support for assigning the result of new by reference. (Nikita)
. Invalid octal literals in source code now produce compile errors, fixes
PHPSadness #31. (Andrea)
. Removed dl() function on fpm-fcgi. (Nikita)
. Removed support for hexadecimal numeric strings. (Nikita)
. Removed obsolete extensions and SAPIs. See the full list in UPGRADING. (Anatol)
. Added NULL byte protection to exec, system and passthru. (Yasuo)
. Added error_clear_last() function. (Reeze Xia)
. Fixed bug #68797 (Number 2.2250738585072012e-308 converted incorrectly).
(Anatol)
. Improved zend_qsort(using hybrid sorting algo) for better performance,
and also renamed zend_qsort to zend_sort. (Laruence)
. Added stable sorting algo zend_insert_sort. (Laruence)
. Implemented the RFC `Scalar Type Decalarations v0.5`. (Anthony)
. Implemented the RFC `Group Use Declarations`. (Marcio)
. Implemented the RFC `Continue Output Buffering`. (Mike)
. Implemented the RFC `Constructor behaviour of internal classes`. (Dan, Dmitry)
. Implemented the RFC `Fix "foreach" behavior`. (Dmitry)
. Implemented the RFC `Generator Delegation`. (Bob)
. Implemented the RFC `Anonymous Class Support`. (Joe, Nikita, Dmitry)
. Implemented the RFC `Context Sensitive Lexer`. (Marcio Almada)
. Fixed bug #69511 (Off-by-one buffer overflow in php_sys_readlink).
(Jan Starke, Anatol)

- CLI server:
. Refactor MIME type handling to use a hash table instead of linear search.
(Adam)
. Update the MIME type list from the one shipped by Apache HTTPD. (Adam)
. Added support for SEARCH WebDav method. (Mats Lindh)

- Curl:
. Fixed bug #68937 (Segfault in curl_multi_exec). (Laruence)
. Removed support for unsafe file uploads. (Nikita)

- Date:
. Fixed day_of_week function as it could sometimes return negative values
internally. (Derick)
. Removed $is_dst parameter from mktime() and gmmktime(). (Nikita)
. Removed date.timezone warning
(https://wiki.php.net/rfc/date.timezone_warning_removal). (Bob)
. Added "v" DateTime format modifier to get the 3-digit version of fraction
of seconds. (Mariano Iglesias)
. Implemented FR #69089: Added DateTime::RFC3339_EXTENDED to output in
RFC3339 Extended format which includes fraction of seconds (Mariano
Iglesias)

- DBA:
. Fixed bug #62490 (dba_delete returns true on missing item (inifile)). (Mike)
. Fixed bug #68711 (useless comparisons). (bugreports at internot dot info)

- DOM:
. Made DOMNode::textContent writeable. (Tjerk)

- GD:
. Made fontFetch's path parser thread-safe. (Sara)
. Removed T1Lib support. (Kalle)

- Fileinfo:
. Fixed bug #66242 (libmagic: don't assume char is signed). (ArdB)

- Filter:
. New FILTER_VALIDATE_DOMAIN and better RFC conformance for FILTER_VALIDATE_URL. (Kevin Dunglas)

- FPM:
. Fixed bug #68945 (Unknown admin values segfault pools). (Laruence)
. Fixed bug #65933 (Cannot specify config lines longer than 1024 bytes). (Chris Wright)
. Implement request #67106 (Split main fpm config). (Elan Ruusamäe, Remi)

- FTP:
. Fixed bug #69082 (FTPS support on Windows). (Anatol)

- Intl:
. Removed deprecated aliases datefmt_set_timezone_id() and
IntlDateFormatter::setTimeZoneID(). (Nikita)

- JSON
. Replace non-free JSON parser with a parser from Jsond extension, fixes #63520
(JSON extension includes a problematic license statement). (Jakub Zelenka)
. Fixed bug #68938 (json_decode() decodes empty string without error).
(jeremy at bat-country dot us)

- LDAP
. Fixed bug #47222 (Implement LDAP_OPT_DIAGNOSTIC_MESSAGE). (Andreas Heigl)

- LiteSpeed:
. Updated LiteSpeed SAPI code from V5.5 to V6.6. (George Wang)

- libxml:
. Fixed handling of big lines in error messages with libxml >= 2.9.0.
(Christoph M. Becker)

- Mcrypt:
. Fixed possible read after end of buffer and use after free. (Dmitry)
. Removed mcrypt_generic_end() alias. (Nikita)
. Removed mcrypt_ecb(), mcrypt_cbc(), mcrypt_cfb(), mcrypt_ofb(). (Nikita)

- Opcache:
. Fixed bug #69688 (segfault with eval and opcache fast shutdown).
(Laruence)
. Added experimental (disabled by default) file based opcode cache.
(Dmitry, Laruence, Anatol)
. Fixed bug with try blocks being removed when extended_info opcode
generation is turned on. (Laruence)
. Fixed bug #68644 (strlen incorrect : mbstring + func_overload=2 +UTF-8
+ Opcache). (Laruence)

- OpenSSL:
. Added "alpn_protocols" SSL context option allowing encrypted client/server
streams to negotiate alternative protocols using the ALPN TLS extension when
built against OpenSSL 1.0.2 or newer. Negotiated protocol information is
accessible through stream_get_meta_data() output.
. Removed "CN_match" and "SNI_server_name" SSL context options. Use automatic
detection or the "peer_name" option instead. (Nikita)

- pcntl:
. Fixed bug #60509 (pcntl_signal doesn't decrease ref-count of old handler
when setting SIG_DFL). (Julien)
. Added wifcontinued and wcontinued. (xilon-jul)
. Added rusage support to pcntl_wait() and pcntl_waitpid(). (Anton Stepanenko,
Tony)

- PCRE:
. Removed support for the /e (PREG_REPLACE_EVAL) modifier. (Nikita)

- PDO:
. Fixed bug #59450 (./configure fails with "Cannot find php_pdo_driver.h").
(maxime dot besson at smile dot fr)

- PDO_mysql:
. Fixed bug #68424 (Add new PDO mysql connection attr to control multi
statements option). (peter dot wolanin at acquia dot com)

- PDO_pgsql:
. Removed PGSQL_ATTR_DISABLE_NATIVE_PREPARED_STATEMENT attribute in favor of
ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES). (Nikita)

- Reflection
. Fixed inheritance chain of Reflector interface. (Tjerk)
. Added ReflectionGenerator class. (Bob)
. Added reflection support for return types and type declarations. (Sara,
Matteo)

- Session:
. Fixed bug #67694 (Regression in session_regenerate_id()). (Tjerk)
. Fixed bug #68941 (mod_files.sh is a bash-script). (bugzilla at ii.nl, Yasuo)

- SOAP:
. Fixed bug #68361 (Segmentation fault on SoapClient::__getTypes). (Laruence)

- SPL:
. Changed ArrayIterator implementation using zend_hash_iterator_... API.
Allowed modification of iterated ArrayObject using the same behavior
as proposed in `Fix "foreach" behavior`. Removed "Array was modified
outside object and internal position is no longer valid" hack. (Dmitry)
. Implemented #67886 (SplPriorityQueue/SplHeap doesn't expose extractFlags
nor curruption state). (Julien)
. Fixed bug #66405 (RecursiveDirectoryIterator::CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME
breaks the RecursiveIterator). (Paul Garvin)

- Sqlite3:
. Fixed bug #68260 (SQLite3Result::fetchArray declares wrong
required_num_args). (Julien)

- Standard:
. Fixed bug #69723 (Passing parameters by reference and array_column).
(Laruence)
. Fixed bug #69523 (Cookie name cannot be empty). (Christoph M. Becker)
. Fixed bug #69325 (php_copy_file_ex does not pass the argument).
(imbolk at gmail dot com)
. Fixed bug #69299 (Regression in array_filter's $flag argument in PHP 7).
(Laruence)
. Removed call_user_method() and call_user_method_array() functions. (Kalle)
. Fixed user session handlers (See rfc:session.user.return-value). (Sara)
. Added intdiv() function. (Andrea)
. Improved precision of log() function for base 2 and 10. (Marc Bennewitz)
. Remove string category support in setlocale(). (Nikita)
. Remove set_magic_quotes_runtime() and its alias magic_quotes_runtime().
(Nikita)
. Fixed bug #65272 (flock() out parameter not set correctly in windows).
(Daniel Lowrey)
. Added preg_replace_callback_array function. (Wei Dai)
. Deprecated salt option to password_hash. (Anthony)
. Fixed bug #69686 (password_verify reports back error on PHP7 will null
string). (Anthony)
. Added Windows support for getrusage(). (Kalle)
. Removed hardcoded limit on number of pipes in proc_open(). (Tony)

- Streams:
. Fixed bug #68532 (convert.base64-encode omits padding bytes).
(blaesius at krumedia dot de)
. Removed set_socket_blocking() in favor of its alias stream_set_blocking().
(Nikita)

- XSL:
. Fixed bug #64776 (The XSLT extension is not thread safe). (Mike)
. Removed xsl.security_prefs ini option. (Nikita)

- Zlib:
. Added deflate_init(), deflate_add(), inflate_init(), inflate_add()
functions allowing incremental/streaming compression/decompression.
(Daniel Lowrey & Bob Weinand)

- Zip:
. Added ZipArchive::setCompressionName and ZipArchive::setCompressionIndex
methods (Remi, Cedric Delmas)
. Update bundled libzip to 1.0.1 (Remi, Anatol)
. Fixed bug #67161. (ZipArchive::getStream() returns NULL for certain file)
(Christoph M. Becker)

PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1 kann hier herunterladen werden:
https://downloads.php.net/~ab/

Die zweite Alpha Version soll am 25. Juni 2015 erscheinen